We must intervene much earlier as a nation to break the vicious circle of educational failure.

The reason for the familiar bandwagon phenomenon is to be found in educational failure.

"Tomorrow's Schools has sharpened our focus on educational failure," he said.

These factors are the main driver of educational failure.

The 1996 law also gave the chancellor the power to fire a superintendent for "persistent educational failure."

But I want to start where educational failure has had its highest price.

Making the threat more explicit, he added, "Somebody else besides the children should pay for educational failure."

Both bills try to address educational failures from kindergarten through high school.

"I want to start where educational failure has its highest price," he said.

It is not poverty that commits a child to educational failure.